The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.

Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.

Is there no end to this escalation of desire?

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

Advertisers in general bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrists, pills, or the bottle.

An American who can make money, invoke God, and be no better than his neighbor, has nothing to fear but truth itself.

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.